The short-form week of 20–26 Jan 2014

27 Jan 2014; last modified 16 Feb 2014

The week in review, 140 characters at a time.

This document was created automatically from my archive of my Twitter stream. Due to limitations in the Twitter API and occasional glitches in my archiving system, it may not be 100% complete.

In a conversation that started on Sunday at 08:47pm

Brain bending thought for the day. The infinite sum of all the positive integers (1+2+3+4...) is ... -1/12. http://t.co/0DmoqYdFbh —@ndw

@ndw Math exchange has more http://t.co/yA46eYwxfV —@alexmilowski

@ndw how come there are more odd numbers than even numbers?—@TheMainstand

@ndw *An* infinite sum of the integers is -1/12. (Or rather, the analytic continuation of the series is -1/12.)—@tabatkins

In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 12:25pm

Decisions, decisions (since I appear to be sticking it out with my #Linux laptop). http://t.co/XyeLw7lQcc —@ndw

@ndw But, where is the Apple logo?—@avernet

@ndw My other hobby is collecting stickers?—@dpawson

@ndw The Evernote sticker on a Linux laptop would be a great irony.—@sgmlguru

@ndw I hope the overlhappens sticker is set ;)—@mstuehrenberg

@ndw nice collection!—@olivierjeulin

Tuesday at 11:32pm

Mmmm. Latex dust. My garnish. http://t.co/858mXIkVCL (Blech)—@ndw

In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 11:35pm

The extra little bits of goo you stick on URIs to track where they came from? I delete those with a sense of rightous entitlement,.—@ndw

@ndw good stance, we all should—@jeffsonstein

@ndw me too, except for RSS. I want websites to know that I use RSS :)—@olivierjeulin

+1 MT @ndw The extra little bits of goo you stick on URIs to track where they came from? I delete those with a sense of rightous entitlement—@jeffsonstein

@ndw doesn't everyone?—@laurendw

Wednesday at 12:29am

+1 RT @ndw The extra little bits of goo you stick on URIs to track where they came from? I delete those with a sense of rightous entitlement—@neeran

Wednesday at 04:36am

The FOOD SAFETY Daily is out! http://t.co/btDZSOjuIx Stories via @ndw @Calabasas_Buzz —@KlausMittendorf

Wednesday at 06:50am

Want to work with the XQuery dream team @collwhit @grechaw @ehennum @ndw and me at #marklogic ? DM me—@xquery

Wednesday at 08:54am

Spam for ED drugs, fake lotteries, etc., I can imagine getting desperate marks, but 320 ton marine transport vehicles? What are the odds?—@ndw

Wednesday at 12:40pm

RT @ndw: The extra little bits of goo you stick on URLa to track where they came from? I delete those with a sense of rightous entitlement.—@BryanMakesLists

Wednesday at 07:37pm

I think I could predict when a tweet is going to get a few retweets. Occasionally, I get 10 times as many. I couldn't predict that at all.—@ndw

In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 07:37pm

Twitter client for Linux? #lazyweb —@ndw

@ndw Why do you need a client other than a Web browser?—@hsivonen

@ndw #turses if you want a cli-based client. #turpial is a good GUI client (gtk based). Choqok - haven't used - is a KDE client.—@CanOfBees

@ndw Why do you need a client other than #Emacs? Try `twittering-mode' https://t.co/jB5Me8l8t8—@MenteaXML

@MenteaXML Ah! Now that sounds like a plan!—@ndw

@ndw ... the website :\ and sometimes perl scripts.—@gcarothers

@gcarothers @ndw I use the web site and "Pin tab" in the browser (also pin Evernote, OWA (for calendar), and a few others.—@cramerdw

@ndw another nice cli-client I haven't used in a while is #ttyter, but I don't know if it's API compliant these days.—@CanOfBees

@CanOfBees @ndw Still API compliant, you just have to make sure you give it -ssl=1 otherwise it gets sad.—@tjh

@ndw oops, meant #ttytter.—@CanOfBees

In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 07:52pm

Time to plan your "summer" in Oxford. Registration is open: http://t.co/lWZWzbwR3k #xmlss14 —@ndw

@ndw I'm still not teaching Linked Data...wtf!? ;)—@kendall

@kendall I'll look into that.—@ndw

In a conversation that started on Saturday at 12:59pm

at what stage will JSON have all the XML features, just with different syntax? http://t.co/feWOlbtgMw —@laurendw

@laurendw I don't think mixed content will ever be very practical.—@ndw

In a conversation that started on Sunday at 06:09am

Trying to read students tests. Most readable handwritten text in a Latin alphabet comes from students who have Cyrillic as a native one.—@jirkakosek

@jirkakosek I promise never to submit a conference abstract in my illegible scrawling.—@ndw

In a conversation that started on Sunday at 06:21pm

The Twitter API has been sending me 403s for about a week. Looks like my auth token and secret are still good. Anyone know what's changed?—@ndw

@ndw They know you like #XML ...—@alexmilowski